Ask Peter Hahn how he spent his summer vacation and he’ll tick off number after number after number.

Hahn is the incumbent quarterback on the Haskell Indian Nations University football team and he is fit as a fiddle and ready for action.

“I’ve toned up,” Hahn says in response to questions about what he did this summer back home in Live Oak, Fla. “I’ve dropped four percent body fat from 13 to nine percent. My bench press is up 30 pounds and my squats are ”

Point made.

When Hahn reported to Lawrence late last summer as a touted transfer from Florida State’s tradition-rich program, he was listed at 6-foot-2, 225 pounds. After his weigh-in, however, he was listed at 5-11, 235 pounds.

Today Hahn is still 5-11, but closer to 210 pounds and hoping he won’t have to run for his life like he did most of last season when the Fightin’ Indians lost all 11 games.

“I think our offense will be a lot better this season,” Hahn said, “because our offensive line will be more experienced. Most of them were freshmen last year. And I think we have some receivers with speed. So that looks promising.”

Hahn came to HINU after spending the 2000 season red-shirting at Florida State where, he says, he was a preferred walk-on.

“Things weren’t working out the way I thought,” Hahn said of his experience in Tallahassee, “so I decided to try coming to Haskell.”

Through the first six games of the 2001 season, Hahn completed only 30.7 percent of his passes and threw eight interceptions. Stats from his last five games are unavailable because no one maintained them, but suffice it to say Hahn’s numbers were not gaudy.

HINU scored only five touchdowns in those five outings, yet Hahn kept plugging away.

“I knew that every game out guys were getting experience,” he said. “We’ll get more experience this year and next year and by my senior year I figure we should be a decent team.”

First-year Haskell coach Eric Brock hopes Hahn’s optimistic attitude and proven work habits will rub off on his teammates.

“He’s one of our best athletes and he takes care of himself,” Brock said. “He does over and above what we ask him to. For instance, we told him to be able to run the mile under a certain time, but he wants to do better than that. He wants to run some ungodly number.”

Hahn may want to run faster because he hears footsteps. Although Hahn enters the fall as the Tribe’s starting quarterback he could be pushed by Chris Muniz, a starter at Langston University in 1999 who has been hobbled by knee injuries. Muniz has had ACL surgery on each of his knees.

“He’s talented,” Hahn says of Muniz. “Having him here is only going to make me better.”